Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-07-27
MONTANA IN GENERAL.

Lieutenants Rumenger- and Massert
have left Fort Shaw for the east on leave
of absence.
Bailey & Billings of Billings have sold
their entire stock of groceries to Conrad Il
Go. of Miles City.
Mart Tupper will take charge of the
Butte electric light works ON August l.
The Helena Young Mems Christian AS
sociation will occupy the second story of
the Kleinschmidt building next month.
The Park city mill Is now ready for
work and expects to turn out, when need
ed, seventy-five barrels daily of "Park
City Snow Flake
JF. Wilson, who came recently from
Iowa, has been appointed clerk Of the
probate court at Helena in place of Mr..
Clark. who intends to practice law.
In Gallatin county grass and grain are
growing as they never grew before. The
wheat grown on the benchlands is being
harvested and the yield is immense.
OF the wool shipped from Billings Bah
cock Il Miles handled 275,777 pounds and
the Billings Grain g. Fuel Company 109,
800 pounds. The remainder was handled
in small lots by Others
The Bozeman Chroaaele says that Mon
tana is now thesmost prosperous section in
the union and is entering an era OF pros
perity that bids fair to be unequaled in the
history of any territory
Senators Cameron, Farwell, Vest, and
Ex-Governor Hauser are on their way to
Alaska. They and others bought thirty
two acres of town property in Helena for
$4,000 per acre or about 5000 per foot.
The shipments of wool we're 425,s
pounds up to the 21st instant. The places
to which the wool was sent are as follows:
Boston. 218,335 ID; st. Louis, $4,000;
Philadelphia, 1886; Duluth. 29, SIT; Chi
cago, 10000.
The Helena Herald SAYS there is eyi-
dence in the certificates filed in the Audi
tors office, on which squirrel warrants
have been issued. which conyinces many
that frauds to no inconsiderable amount
haze been perpetrated.
Capt. Henry Romeyn, Fifth infantry q.
s. A.. stationed at Fort keogh, who was
appointed inspector general of the Grand
Army Of the Republic for Montana is
now making tour of Inspection of the
several posts in the department.. ami was
recently in Bozeman.
G. Wallace Taylor, stock commissioner
for Choteau county, said lately in Helena
that the country never looked better, and
two or three good years will permit the
stock interests to fully recover. He bought
the mavericks of the roundup, in which
his cattle were branded, at little over $17
per head. They were all yearlings.
In the case of John Hart, who was
under sentence of death for shooting Pitts
in tho Boulder courthouse, the supreme
court decided that the court erred in not
permitting the defendant to inquire of
individual members of the grand jury IL
twelve of their number had agreed to the
Indictment rendered against the defend
ant. The exact standing of the case is
now In doubt. Hart who was to have
been hanged next Friday, is at least GER
tain of new trial.
Regarding the roping affair at Phillips
burg it is observed that F. L. Currie was
until lately superintendent of the San
Francisco and Granite mines A short
time ago the latter location was jumped
by an employe named Sorenson Currie
was believed to privy to the affair and was
discharged. He is young man who
formerly resided in Helena Louis De-
mers jumped location belonging to the
Granite Belle Company, owned principal
by by the Granite Mountain Tolman was
probably involved in some similar affair.
There have been other instances of claim
jumping in the district, and public feel
ing was much stirred up on the subject.
This outbreak had been expected for some
time